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Not quite the whole haul, but $35 late in the day at an estate sale

And that's exactly why you stay away from weird old ****. I have a customer with a 1976 Allis Chalmers reach truck, and I keep telling em they need to replace it before it leaves them dead in the water. It's neat cause it's different,and everything works (for now) but it's gonna be a nightmare...

As someone who works on forklifts for a living, I'll throw in my .02.. you're on the right track wanting pneumatic tires. True pneumatics would be best, but don't discount a semi-pneumatic. Avoid cushion tires unless your surface is extremely hard packed and relatively smooth. Additionally...

We run into this with electric forklifts when they want to add radios or computers.. what you're looking for is a DC to DC converter. They make them for various voltages, but a 48 to 12 shouldn't be hard at all to find. There's other ways to do it, but that'll be the most seamless. Price...

Pretty common size for adjuster nuts on forklift chains

Be sure to take pics, this could be interesting, and I don't mean that to be sarcastic. Just make sure that your welds will support it where the two are married, would hate to see that come apart under load.

So if I'm understanding, you'll cut the forks from the jack and graft the stacker to it? BTW $500 for both, especially with good batteries, is a pretty good deal

Now that, maybe, could work. That's a big maybe. Your stacker's power unit isn't all that big so integration of the drive unit and controls may be a packaging nightmare. Add to that the fact that the Clark looks to be 24v, and you'd stated that the Crown was 12v. Not a deal breaker, just...

Crown tech here, it's hard to see on mobile so I'm not 100% on which model that is. Depending on what it is, and most likely, it wouldn't be feasible to add a drive unit. It's more than just a drive motor, it's the controls, which aren't just as simple as switches. There's contactor, relays...

Please start writing! I know I'm not the only one here that enjoys stories from the heyday of America's industrial might! Like you said, so many folks that were around to see it are dying off everyday. So many tales of the great things America has done are lost to history forever, please keep...

Jeeper46- no intention to derail this thread, but do you care to share any other stories from Willow Run, maybe in a separate thread? I myself would be interested, as I'm sure others would. Must have been a hell of a place! :thumbup:

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My .02...I work out of a van every day, average almost 3k miles a month. I have a 30 year old Dayton branded Waterloo top and bottom in my 1 ton Chevrolet. It's no worse for wear than when I put it in. I pulled the casters off and took to drilling holes to bolt it down. Theven way my van is...

+1 I'd wager

We've had regulators come apart here at work too, always the chintzy Napa replacements... point is, it's not just Harbor Freight **** that does it.